UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY 
WASHINGTON 
PLANT INTRODUCTION 
Dec. 18, 1921 
Mr. J. F. Rock, 
c/o American Vice Consul, 
Bangkok, Siam. 
Dear Mr. Rock; 
Your cable from Bangkok, dated December 10, 
reading, "leaving for Szemao," makes us all realize 
that you are really on the trail again. 
Great things are happening here in Washington, 
as you will doubtless see by the press. Just what 
the ultimate outcome of the conference will be no 
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one at the present moment dares venture to guess. That 
the nations concerned are coming closer together there 
seems to be little doubt, but just where France will 
stand in the arrangement nobody knows. Her last move, 
has been a very serious one, and from the standpoint 
of those who want a lasting peace a mistake. Everybody 
hopes that the matter can be adjusted so that she will 
remain in the conference and that the ultimate treaties 
or agreements will include her. It would he a calamity 
to have this attempt of disarmament fail. The thing 
that impresses me most about the whole situation is 
